Paul Chenay, Jean-Antoine Watteau, and others
Head of a Woman
1857
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Softground etching (?), Sheet: 266 x 211 mm. (10 1/2 x 8 5/16 in.)
Image: 67 x 69 mm. (2 5/8 x 2 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number
1996.48.822
Printed in colored inks after a drawing by Watteau, from the journal "L'Artiste"; most likely I.F.F. 19, but it gives a date of 1857.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art, through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
Inscribed: Signed in plate: lower center "Paul Chenay d'après Watteau" Inscribed in plate: lower left "Publié par l'Artiste"; lower center "Imp. F. Chardon Ae., 30, r. Hautefeuille, Paris"
